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...expects Charles Melvin Price to make waves as chairman of the Armed Services Committee. He is a party stalwart, almost unknown outside the House, the defense world and his downstate Illinois district. Notably, he lacks the arrogance of his predecessor, F. Edward Hébert, and any instinct for newspaper headlines...
Hays' animosity contrasted with the reaction of the rejected Hébert. He had at first bitterly threatened to wage a floor fight to keep his chairmanship of Armed Services. This would have involved currying Republican votes to overturn a decision of the Democratic caucus. As party leaders, Albert and O'Neill announced sternly that if Hébert did so, he would be expelled from the party caucus and lose his seniority in the House, as well as his chairmanship. Hébert then not only abandoned the fight but sent words of thanks to Albert...
Author Lahr has already earned bouquets for Notes on a Cowardly Lion, an autobiography of his father, Comedian Bert Lahr, and scattered applause for his first novel, The Autograph Hound. Hot to Trot is an entertaining economy tour de force for those who prefer to travel fast and light...
SCAPINO. The incredibly nimble Jim Dale joins that select pantheon of comic agility, men like Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, who clowned in flawless body English...
...Bert Sirote Monsey...